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Event: “Mother of Collaborations”

June 3, 2018April 14, 2021CMC

“The Mother of Collaborations”, an event exploring successful collaborations between UK and Chinese development and does cialis need prescription production teams, was jointly organised by China Central Television and the China Media Centre and took place on 31 May at the University of Westminster’s Regent Street Campus. Hosted by Professor Hugo de Burgh, panel guests included Yu Lei, Executive Producer of ‘The Nation’s Greatest Treasures’ (CCTV); Richard Dale, Film Producer ‘Earth: One Amazing Day’ (BBC/SMG) and Anne Cornell, International Producer ‘The Batchelor’ (Warner Bros) and others.

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China Media Centre presents CCTV productions at the British Museum

June 1, 2018December 29, 2020CMC

The University of Westminster’s China Media Centre hosts two conferences in partnership with China Central Television (CCTV) celebrating successful collaborations between UK and Chinese television teams.

The first, entitled ‘A Wealth of Treasures and Stories’ was held on Tuesday 29 May at the British Museum’s Stevenson Theatre. 150 professionals from the British media and arts world attended the event.

The seminar, hosted by writer, broadcaster and former UK Minister of Culture, Gyles Brandreth, celebrated the immense popular success of the reality show ‘The Nation’s Greatest Treasures’, a ten-part series that uses a complex variety-show format to look at treasures in nine Chinese museums. The show was developed on one of the University of Westminster’s China Media Centre’s ‘TV Innovation and non pescription cialis Development’ courses. ‘The Nation’s Greatest Treasures’ has since been transmitted in China to enormous success, with 1.7bn hits online increasing museum attendances by 50 per cent.

On Thursday 31 May, Professor Hugo de Burgh also chaired a panel discussion, in Fyvie Hall at the Regent Street Campus, which looked closely at how to deliver successful collaborations between UK and Chinese production teams.

The panel guests included Yu Lei, Executive Producer of ‘The Nation’s Greatest Treasures’ (CCTV), Richard Dale, Film Producer ‘Earth: One Amazing Day’ (BBC/SMG), Anne Cornell, International Producer ‘The Bachelor’ (Warner Bros) and more.

The China Media Centre is the European specialist on the world’s largest media system, it organises professional exchanges and briefings at which visiting practitioners and students attend three to twelve-week courses to develop television and media concepts.

Since 2011, the China Media Centre has become the model for professional development in the international screen media industry. Every year, participants return home to China with treatments that have been developed into successful programmes. The most famous are transmissions by CCTV including Mission AI, Amazing Legends and The Nation’s Greatest Treasures; and by Shanghai Media Group with King of Comedy, Top Dog and Junior Edison.

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CMC 2018 Spring Seminar: ‘Cruel Optimism’: Communicating A Global China Through Blockbuster Documentaries

April 18, 2018December 29, 2020CMC

Speaker: Dr Bao Hongwei

Date: Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Time: 14:00 – 16:00

Venue: A1.05, Harrow Campus

Chair: Professor Chang Xiangqun

OPEN TO ALL

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Abstract: Released on 2 March 2018 in tandem with the ‘Two Sessions’, Amazing China (厉害了，我的国 dir. Wei Tie, 2018, in Mandarin, 90 min.) has become the highest grossing documentary film in China to date. How can a documentary with explicit political messages about China’s achievements under Xi’s leadership become a blockbuster? What can we learn about China’s screen industries in relation to the state and the market? Does this case exemplify a ‘paradigm shift’ in the way how the Chinese government conducts its political communication for domestic and transnational Chinese-speaking audiences? Through critical analysis of some textual features and viagra price 100mg contextual factors that contribute to the commercial success of the film, I argue that the film showcases the commercialisation and industrialisation of Chinese government’s political communication strategies. The film’s commercial success lies in the active involvement of the state in commercial screen industries; and the popularity of the film can be attributed to its successful mobilisation of an affect of optimism. For individuals, this optimism can both be empowering and precarious, and sometimes even ‘cruel’ in the words of Laurent Berlant (2011): as it brings confidence and pride to imagine oneself as part of an unfolding history and an emerging global power; it also reinforces the insignificance and even venerability of the self in such a narrative.

CMC 2018 Spring Seminar: How CNKI literature can support your academic research. Studies on Social Science in China

March 28, 2018December 29, 2020CMC

Speaker: Xiao Hong

Date: Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Time: 16:00 – 18:00

Venue: 152-153 Cayley, Regent Campus

309 Regent Street, W1B 2HT

Chair: Professor Chang Xiangqun

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Abstract: Due to language barrier, social science studies in China have been always overlooked by its international peers. In fact, every year, a great deal of Chinese social science literature has been published on various channels in China, such as periodicals, dissertations, conference proceedings, newspapers and e-books, and they have been timely released to the world through CNKI platform. These articles have wholly covered every aspect of social science studies in China and reflected the directions and processes of its development. Besides highlights on publishing Chinese academic literature, CNKI undertakes a national project of “Journal Translations Project”, which is in alliance with hundreds of publishing house in China to publish the translated top journals in China according to the rank of their international impact. This project will enable more English readers to study on China topics directly. Meanwhile, CNKI makes it possible to provide the world an important gateway to academic studies in China.

Biography: Mr. XIAO Hong is Manager and Associate Editor-in-Chief, China Academic Journal (CD) Electronic Publishing House Co.Ltd.,Director of Chinese Scientific Bibliometrics Research Center of CNKI, General Manager of International Publishing Center of CNKI.

Mr. XIAO is an expert with Special Government Allowances of the State Council, and the winner of 1st China Governmental Prize for Publishing: Elitist (2007) and Leading Talent of National Press and Publication Industries. He is an information professional in academic publishing and scientific bibliometrics with over 30 years of experiences. After gained Senior Editor position in 2002 he has been the Director of Acta Pharmacologica Sinica for 11 years, and became the founder and Editorial Director of Asian Journal of Andrology as well as Family Medicines; during 2002-2006 he was the founding Director of Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences, which is responsible for offering library and information service to Shanghai Institutes for Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences; During 2006-2012, he was the Deputy Editor-in-chief of Science Press, and the General Manager of Science China Press. He joined CNKI in 2012 and now is the vice president and associate editor-in-chief of Chinese Academic Journals (CD) Publishing Co.Ltd, and Director of Chinese Scientific Bibliometrics Research Center of CNKI. He has made a great contribution to Chinese scientific bibliometrics, being the editor-in-chief of Annual Report for International Citation of Chinese Academic Journals (2016), Research Report on Annual Report of the Impact Factor of Science and Technology / Humanities and Social Sciences (2016).

Notes: This is also one of the Global China Media Seminar Series (GCMSS), co-organised with Global China Institute.

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CMC 2018 Spring Seminar: Dressing-up the Dragon? Chinese media as ‘Soft Power’

March 20, 2018December 29, 2020CMC

Speaker: Professor Daya Thussu

Date: Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Time: 14:00 – 16:00

Venue: A1.10, Harrow Campus

Chair: Professor Chang Xiangqun

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OPEN TO ALL

The growing globalisation of the Chinese media is integral to China’s soft power discourse. As part of its ‘going out’ strategy, China’s media is working towards promoting its vision to the world and to counter negative images of China in the US-dominated global media. From mobile telephony to online communication, China has witnessed a revolution in the production and distribution of its cultural products now reaching all corners of an increasingly digitised globe. This talk will suggest that the state-funded ‘central media’ – Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, People’s Daily and the English-language China Daily – will need to pay more attention to the cultural and communicative aspects of the world beyond the West to make China’s soft power more effective.